You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.